Book Review: Understanding Manga and Anime
Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2008 Review of Understanding Manga and ...
Barbara Ann Bourrier-LaCroix
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Otakuism and the Appeal of Sex Robots [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Social robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in everyday life and sex robots are a sub-category of especially high public interest and controversy.
Markus Appel +2 more
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Subject playing with flat images: Transmedia spreadability of anime and manga character images [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2023 Anime and manga characters are so ubiquitous in Japan that people see them anywhere, regardless of public or private. The two-dimensional flatness of line drawing allows the character images to straddle the boundaries of the worlds of works and media ...
Kohki Watabe
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Spór o mangę – rzut oka z perspektywy badacza komiksu
Images, 2023 The article is an attempt to analyse the methods and critical arguments against the manga and anime expressed by the people who, in the polemical discourse of their opponents, are treated as experts.
Wojciech Birek
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Croatian anime and manga fans: an encounter with Japanese culture and language
Tabula, 2021 The intensification of the spread of Japanese media and play products has inspired academic research into transnational fan involvement with Japan as the country of origin of these media.
Velna Rončević
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Prefiguring the Otokonoko Genre: A Comparative Trans Analysis of Stop!! Hibari-Kun! and No Bra
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2022 This article examines two manga, Stop!! Hibari-Kun! and No Bra, which prefigure the increasingly popular anime and manga genre of "Otokonoko" from a queer studies perspective.
Riley Hannah Lewicki
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To (Sub)Serve Man. Role Language and Intimate Scripts in Kioku no Dizorubu
Lea, 2023 Japanese Adult Computer Games engage players in immersive narrative experiences centred on intimate interactions with anime-manga characters. Within these games, players are encouraged to develop parasocial phenomena as an integral aspect of the gameplay
Luca Bruno
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A Message of Gratitude and the State of JAMS in 2021
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2021 A welcome from the Editor-in-Chief, alongside a dedication.
Billy Tringali
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30 Years Later, Re-Examining the “Pretty Soldier”: A Gender Study Analysis of Sailor Moon
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2022 December of 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of Naoko Takeuchi’s Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon (Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon) manga (1991-1997), and March of 2022 will mark the 30th anniversary of Toei Animation’s Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon anime (1992-1997 ...
Cassandra Yatron
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Book Review: Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyôshi of Edo Japan
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2020 Review of Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyôshi of Edo Japan (2nd ed.) by Adam L. Kern.
Andrea Horbinski
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